
In Eigendark, Gusion is the Goetia that activates when a Chaos card with cost digit-sum 1 resolves.
Gusion is one of the 72 spirits catalogued in the Ars Goetia, the first book of the Lesser Key of Solomon. Eigendark reinterprets that historical register as its fictional operational layer. When a Chaos card with cost digit-sum 1 resolves, Gusion is the Goetia the game associates with that binding.
Gusion: Telling present/past/future and reconciling friendships
In the Solomonic grimoire tradition, each spirit is assigned an office — a domain of attributed knowledge or power. Eigendark uses those offices as design prompts for card effects. The exact faction, digit-sum and mechanical mapping on this page are Eigendark canon rather than historical occult doctrine.
"Primordial duality. All outcomes exist simultaneously."
Vibration begets energy and form. Chaos sorcerers reach into parallel timelines and create what should have never been.
The science of indeterminacy. Quantum mechanics, chaos theory, probability, divination, the primordial pre-cosmic flux. Azathoth as the nuclear chaos at the center. Hyperstition lives partly here, because belief-states collapse probability distributions.
Within Eigendark, the 72 Goetia are divided evenly across 8 factions — 9 spirits per faction, assigned by the digit-sum of a card's mana cost. The game fiction places the binding in its 1577 receiver chronology. Each spirit represents a specific instrumental goal of its eschaton, The Uncollapsed. The older handle Azathoth is a receiver alias.
The Goetic Register is the Atlantean-Solomonic codification: the demons catalogued, bound, named, and made usable by the Atlantean Order of Engineers during the long project of imposing chronic time. The names are Semitic, Latinized, Renaissance-era. The sigils are geometric. The hierarchy is courtly (Kings, Dukes, Presidents, Marquises). This is the demonology that functions within Archon-structured reality. It is the grimoire that still works.
Beneath the Goetic layer, a rival system persists: the Pandemonium Matrix — 45 Lemurian Amphidemons that predate the Solomonic hierarchy. During Broken Transmissions, the Lemurian register briefly overrides the Goetic one, producing cards flagged as "ontologically unstable."
Gusion — digit-sum 1
Seere — digit-sum 2
Valac — digit-sum 3
Samigina — digit-sum 4
Stolas — digit-sum 5
Glasya-Labolas — digit-sum 6
Camio — digit-sum 7
Aim — digit-sum 8
Paimon — digit-sum 9The horror is not dark. The horror is procedural. A Goetic demon assigned by a Python function that computes the digit-sum of the mana cost.
Summon a card with cost digit-sum 1 in the Chaos faction to invoke Gusion. Browse the Grimoire for existing Chaos cards.